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- From: johnm@cajal.uoregon.edu (John Martin)
- Subject: Re: Pleasure.com mystery solved.
- Message-ID: <1992Jul30.053413.27574@nntp.uoregon.edu>
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- Organization: Institute of Neuroscience, University of Oregon
- References: <xKV-d9#@engin.umich.edu> <3157@ra.nrl.navy.mil> <1992Jul29.215824.16932@anomaly.sbs.risc.net>
- Date: Thu, 30 Jul 92 05:34:13 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul29.215824.16932@anomaly.sbs.risc.net>, kd1hz@anomaly.sbs.risc.net (Michael P. Deignan (KD1HZ)) writes:
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- >atkinson@itd.nrl.navy.mil (Randall Atkinson) writes:
- >
- >> The DDn Network Information Center is the ONLY official organisation
- >>that can grant or delegate responsibility for domain names.
- >
- >Do you have the law which deligates them this authority?
- >
- >No? I thought so.
- >
- >The NIC is a clearinghouse, which is generally accepted amoung sites to be
- >"the center" for registering a domain. There is no force-of-law behind this,
- >however.
- >
-
-
- This is downright frightening. Are you saying that something has to be
- criminal before you should avoid doing it?? There is no force of law, as you
- put it, but it is a very strongly rooted convention, not to mention just
- plain old good manners.
-
- It is this very type of thinking that requires we have so many stupid laws
- on the books in the first place! I find it very discouraging that this could
- even be brought up in this discussion.
-
-
- --
- John Martin johnm@cajal.uoregon.edu
- Institute of Neuroscience, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, 97402
-